Blower.



J. C. SWAYKUS & A. TKACZ.

BLOWER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR 10, I917- Patented Ma 231918.

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JOHN C. SWAYKUS AND ALEX TKAGZ, OF LAGKAWANNA, NEW YORK.

BLOWER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May Ti, 191.

Application filed March 10, 1917. serial No. 153,865.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN (J. SWAYKUS, a citizen of the United States, and ALEX Cllkaoz, subject of Austria-Hungary, residing at Lackawanna, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Blowers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in blowers.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of an air circulating fan or blower especially adapted for employment in a mine or in connection with a forge for producing a strong current of air within a suitable transmitting conduit.

A further object of the device is the provision of a blower of compact arrangement adapted for operation either by hand or motive power, the air circulating members being entirely hidden from view and having a double path of movement for traveling at great speeds in creating an air draft for use at a distance from the device.

In the drawings forming a part of this application and in which like designating characters refer to corresponding parts throughout the several views Figure 1 is a sectional view of the device taken upon line 1-1 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic sectional view thereof.

Fig. 3 is an interior view of the casing of the device with the cover plate removed, and,

Fig. 4 is an edge view of the device upon a reduced scale.

The present device being adapted for installation wherever a strong air current is desired, such for instance, as at a blacksmiths forge, the same is arranged with a flat cylindrical casing 10 having a chamber 11 therein and provided with a removable circular cover plate 12, diametrically opposite brackets 13 being arranged upon the casing for conveniently mounting the device wherever desired for use.

A gear 14 is centrally secured within the chamber 11 being integrally or otherwise mounted upon the closed side 15 of the casing 10 and having a central thrust hearing or socket 16 at the center thereof for journaling the reduced end 17 of an operating shaft 18 which extends centrally through the chamber 11 and the cover plate 12 thereof being provided with a pulley or belt wheel 19 exteriorly thereof.

A cylindrical block or disk 20 is keyed as at 21 upon the shaft 18 within the chamber 11 and is arranged with two cylindrical pockets 22 fOl'lTlGCl therein, a lid or closure 23 being removably seated within an annular marginal flange 2% of the block 20 overlying the said pockets 22.

A fan or air circulating member 25 having suitable blades or wings 26 is journaled within each of the pockets 22 having the shaft 27 thereof extending through the lid 23 of the pockets and provided with a pinion 28 in constant mesh with the aforementioned gear 14.

The casing 10 being secured stationary, the pulley 19 is turned for revolving the block 20, which by reason of the engagement of the pinions 28 with the gear 14:, revolves the fans 25 in the direction indicated by the arrows in Fig. 1 of the drawing. The air from the fans 25 passes outwardly of the pockets 22 through arcuate passages or mouths 29 oppositely arranged through peripheral portions of the block 20, the air so projected entering the chamber 11 out wardly of the block 20, thence passing through an outlet 30 arranged at a suitable position in the casing 10 to which outlet a nozzle or conducting pipe (not shown) is adapted to be attached. The inner and outer inclosures are provided, around the shafts of the fans and the driving shaft, with airintake openings 23 and 24?, respectively, as seen in Fig. 2, accordingly, as the fans are put in operation, air will be drawn or sucked through said air-intake openings, into the inner inclosure.

A blower is thus arranged which possesses great strength and may be readily modified for accommodating the desired number of air propelling fans, the present embodiment of the device however, being the preferred construction thereof.

l/Vhat we claim as new is 1. A blower comprising a casing having an air outlet, a block revolubly mounted within the casing having pockets therein provided with outlet mouths peripherally of the block, fans journaled within the said pockets, gear connections between the said fans and casing, and means for revolving said block within the latter.

2. A blower comprising a cylindrical casing having a chamber therein provided with a removable cover plate, a gear centrally fixed within the chamber, a shaft centrally journaled therethrough, a block carried by said shaft, and a plurality of fans journaled to said block operatively connected with the said gear.

3. A blower comprising a casing having an air outlet, a gear fixed within the casing,

a block iournaled within said casing, fans journale upon said block, and operative connections between the said fans and gear. 4. AI blower comprising a casing adapted for stationary mounting and having an air outlet, a block journaled for rotation within the said casing having pockets therein pro- .vided with outlets peripherally of the block,

fans journaled within the said pockets, and

gear connections between the said fans and caslng.

5. A blower including a block journaled for rotation having a pocket therein provided with an outlet mouth, a fan journaled 20 JOHN G. SWAYKUS. ALEX TKAGZ.

copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

